Teacher education classes are contested spaces. Professors interested in reforming content, pedagogy and assessment must wrestle with their own internal tensions and the culture of their institutions in order to make a ...

In this paper we consider the ways the constructs of being a generalist and specialist in teaching have contributed to our stories to live by in mathematics teacher education. We employ narratives of experience to serve ...

Effective writing is a learned skill, required to advance many forms of learning both in classroom contexts, and in job and career contexts. Previous research (Graham & Perin, 2007) has identified many strategies that ...

Many educators have called for the inclusion of new technologies like blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking in higher education to
address the learning needs of the Net Generation. Is there really a discrepancy between the ...

This research draws on the experiences of a Grade 1 delayed reader, his parents, and his teachers, to show his lived curriculum across his home and school contexts. This narrative inquiry is situated in the literature of ...

The course management system (CMS) reinforces the status quo and hinders substantial teaching and learning innovation in higher education. It
does so by imposing artificial time limits on learner access to course content ...

This paper is a philosophical examination of the role of narrative in moral education. We argue that narrative, conceived of as a moral educational practice and not as a method, is an indispensable element of both caring ...

This paper uses a dialogic approach following duoethnography to report on a research study conducted in a charter school offering a locally designed social justice course. This narrative approach involves a critical ...

In this paper, I discuss the implementation of a small-scale Adventure Learning project in a higher education classroom. Data used to
evaluate the Adventure Learning project indicates that the learner experience was ...

The authors critique the commonly accepted notions of ‘digital native’ students and the widening generation gap between them and
‘technophobic’ faculty. Their case studies, from UK higher education, demonstrate that ...

In the past, centralised technology departments had major influence over the choices of learning applications in higher education. With the emergence
of freely available Web 2.0 and open access tools, instructors and ...

Eight orbitals of narrative analysis are presented as a long term interest in autobiographical inquiry, narrative methodology, and curriculum studies in education research. This is also an experiment in thought and play ...

A power shift is occurring in higher education, driven by two trends: (a) the increased freedom of learners to access, create, and recreate content; and (b) the opportunity for learners to interact with each other outside ...

From the emulsion of images taken yesterday, we develop our engagement in time today—the then that is always changing into now. Weathered shutters close together. Driftwood shifts on rocky sand. Sedges grow among the ...

This is a book review of Leah Fowler’s (2006) book entitled, A Curriculum of Difficulty: Narrative Research and the Practice of Teaching. This review was written as a complementary piece for Lisa A. Mitchell’s (2010) paper ...

Cyber-bullying increasingly is becoming a problem for students, educators and policy makers. In this paper, we consider cyber-bullying as a form of
relational aggression; that is, behaviour designed to damage, harm or ...